Struggle in the Steam Age

"Miss Nora, how did you come up with this good method?" A sweaty attendant watched the crowds crowding into the open space in front of the stage, and obediently obeyed the staff's instructions. A look of admiration. Because the little puppet had just achieved a work result that far exceeded that of a group of them who had been busy for half a day.

As soon as they received the task before, these personnel immediately got busy building a podium and preparing their own publicity tasks.

It's a pity that the mission didn't go very smoothly at the beginning. The people basically didn't want to come and listen. Only a few people took advantage of this open space to sit there and rest.

But the puppet quickly took out a lot of snacks and put them on the table, and then asked everyone to declare that as long as everyone can listen to the propaganda for ten minutes, each of them can receive two pieces of snacks.

As a result, after changing the new propaganda method, the circled open space was full of people in just five minutes.

"The principle of this method is very simple to explain, that is, all the people in the dock area are waiting for the boats to leave, but there are not enough boats right now." Because the time is not considered tight, Nora is willing to take out Take a moment to tell the subordinates of these elder brothers some life experiences.

"In other words, these people may need to stay at the port for a long time, so they actually have a lot of free time to listen to what we talk about. As long as we find the right way, we can naturally gather them Come here, for example, giving out some free snacks is enough."

The reason Nora was able to think of this aspect was because she found out from Lawrence's memory a lot about how those liars in Lawrence's previous life's memories used to trick the elderly into listening to their lectures and giving them eggs or snacks. Taking the opportunity to sell fake content, so I changed this method a little bit and used it now.

Judging from the results, the methods summed up by the scammers for the weakness of human nature are indeed very good. At least now, most of the people who were bored on the pier and were about to leave were attracted, and then listened to the propaganda of the staff on the various situations of New Sauer Island.

And when a group of people leave after listening, the staff from Sauer Island will distribute snacks to them one by one. At the same time, it also hinted that they could use the promotional documents they just got to wrap these snacks. In this way, these propaganda documents can be kept in their hands for a longer period of time.

For the transport of departed personnel, the island was busy for more than a whole week before it was basically over. At this time, there were more than 40,000 people on the island and nearly 50,000 people, and finally only less than 7,000 remained.

And after canceling four or five thousand people who planned to stay on the island and not go anywhere, there were only about 2,200 people who were willing to follow Lawrence to a new place.

"This person is really too few." Lawrence frowned after reading the final list. He originally thought that he should be able to recruit 1/10 of the talents at worst, but what he didn't expect was that in the end he was willing The people who go with themselves are only half of the worst situation imagined.

Not long after Lawrence came to the island by clipper, New Shaw Island sent a fleet headed by the Enterprise to come here to pick up people. It's just that what they didn't expect was that the number of people who needed to be transported was much less than the previous plan, so that the supplies prepared by imagination were basically useless.

"Actually, this is also understandable. After all, these people on the island are neither natives nor formally employed workers. So they naturally hope to leave here quickly and return to their hometown under the current situation."

Naturally, Nora had seen this list before, so she flew to Lawrence's shoulder, patted him and comforted him. "That's not our problem."

To be honest, if Lawrence and the others hadn't tried their best to keep them here, and the farm slaves who had been freed during this period had also found out that Lawrence's reputation was indeed good, even the two thousand people might not have been able to stay at all. . It can also be seen from this that a good reputation can still play a role in many places.

"Well, we should think about a better place. For example, now we can use our ship to transport these people back at once. There is no need to transport them two or three times as planned." After discovering that the matter has come to this point, Lawrence quickly adjusted his mood and found some good news.

"By the way, how should we transport people back? Is it directly transported to the newly acquired Cruise Islands?" Nora asked Lawrence after standing at the bow of the boat and looking at the people lined up on the pier. asked. "At least according to the news we received before, there are only about 1,000 people who are willing to stay on that island."

"It's definitely not suitable to go to the Cruz Islands, because it will take more than a month to wait for the sugar cane to be harvested, so they probably don't have enough space and resources to entertain these newcomers." Lawrence said, looking at a bird in the distance. The team fleet is slowly approaching the port, and the side of the fleet is full of people.

This fleet is a fleet sent by the referee, and the people on it are workers who are temporarily hired to harvest sugar cane. According to common sense, when this kind of territory is exchanged, each should take away the last season of crops. But since the original workers on the island were slave labor, Lawrence could not prevent them from leaving.

Be aware that the middle period of sugarcane planting may not require many hands, but the beginning of planting and harvesting and processing require a lot of hands.

Therefore, those who are willing to stay in this situation can barely maintain the field management of sugarcane. It is almost impossible to complete the harvesting and processing of sugarcane like the traditional way.

In particular, sugar cane is different from other commercial crops. Once harvested and not handled in time, the sugar-rich plant roots will rot at an extraordinary rate in the local hot climate. So it is basically impossible to handle these things perfectly without enough manpower.

And the manpower that Lawrence currently has is simply not enough, so it is naturally impossible to obtain such money at the cost of slowing down the development of New Sauer Island. Not to mention that both the harvesting and processing of sugar cane require specialized personnel, but the labor force on New Sauer Island simply does not have this skill.

In this case, in order to avoid wasting sugar cane, Lawrence simply donated all the harvest of this season to the referee as a donation. And with their network resources, it is much easier to find enough labor than Lawrence himself. In just a few days, those ships full of labor came to this place from the entire sea area.

In response to Lawrence's friendly approach, the court also organized a group of people with great reputation in the sea area to start evaluating various industries on the two islands.

After all, the island exchange is just a territory exchange, and the infrastructure construction on the island needs to be recalculated, and the price difference needs to be made up.

However, the time required for this kind of statistical summary is not short, so Lawrence does not intend to wait for the calculation results on the island, but prepares to return to New Sauer Island directly.

"Then we'll go straight back to New Sauer Island, and we should go back after a few days." Nora looked a little regretful when she said this.

The harvest of sugar cane in one season is always a big amount, so it is a pity to give up directly like this. However, it is always a good thing to be able to exchange these benefits that are destined to be unavailable in exchange for a favor from the referee.

"Yeah, we should go back now. If we don't go back quickly, we won't be able to catch up with the completion ceremony of the Niujiaowan Plain Irrigation Canal." Lawrence said, looking at the bags of supplies being transported to the ship. "After the completion of the main irrigation canal, Niujiaowan can be fully developed step by step in a short period of time, so that more energy can be freed up to do other things."